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by **dirty1** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:28 am

Howdy, does any one know of any companies in dunedin that do good jobs on window tinting.
I have tried smith and smith and they dont, crawford glass dont do it anymore either as too many people with brand new cars were complaning it was prefect enough.
help!

by **WCKWGN** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:52 am

tint magic , over in glenross st i thinks listed in the yellow pages . garentees his work did the mrs celica come up good. will only apply 35% tho..

by **dirty1** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:49 pm

Cheers for that, will give him a try. i am looking at going as dark as 5% in the caldina's back windows so i will see what he say's.

by **WCKWGN** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:59 pm

i did the 5% on the rear windows of my wagon as they are big and easy with no real curvature. think coz he is legit business he will only do what he supplies to go on ie 35% . Other dude to try is Tony from Soundway he did my front windows up home as a perk in garage with tint film I supplied. Big thing is having a dust free environment when getting it done.

by **barryogen** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:25 pm

what would be the advantage of having darker than 35s?

from the cars I've seen with 35s on them, it'd be too damn hard to see through them at night, so any darker would be just annoying.

or am I just getting old?

by **MasCam** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:50 am

Your to old

Your buying a family wagon for gods sake. :lol:

If it was legal I would have gone a bit darker on the front side windows of my car to match the back, as you can see through them fine at night.

by **rolla_fxgt** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:40 pm

MasCam wrote:Your to old

Your buying a family wagon for gods sake.

If it was legal I would have gone a bit darker on the front side windows of my car to match the back, as you can see through them fine at night.

What are you buying dave? its not that gt4 caldina thats coming in at mikes cars is it?

by **barryogen** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:08 am

rolla_fxgt wrote:What are you buying dave? its not that gt4 caldina thats coming in at mikes cars is it?

I had a look at Mikes, but having a Mrs that works as a finance chick at a car sales has it's bonus's...

Carbase is watching the auctions for me, for a car with the following, in this order ...

5spd manual 2000/01/02 Facelift ST215
Black
Low-ish kms

The last one they bid on would have cost me $14k landed, 2002, 30000kms, but they didn't know what sort of budget I had in mind... It's good to have "hookups in the biz"

Although, I must say the talk of $2.40 per Litre for gas is kinda scary... the Caldinas have a 60L tank, thats a $144 fill... ouch... gotta hope they are wrong, really really wrong.

by **my_r32** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:57 am

barryogen wrote:Caldinas have a 60L tank, thats a $144 fill... ouch...

So do skylines..... that is quite scary

Maybe me and Andrew should look into getting a cheap runabout... :wink:

(although, its not a bad idea...)

Back on subject for a minute, does anyone actually know how much it costs for professional tinting? Only asking to know if it would be worth it one day, instead of getting mates to do DIY jobs...

Website · by **Mr.Phreak** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:20 am

barryogen wrote:Although, I must say the talk of $2.40 per Litre for gas is kinda scary... the Caldinas have a 60L tank, thats a $144 fill... ouch... gotta hope they are wrong, really really wrong.

Soarer's run an 80L tank, quit your bitching

by **WCKWGN** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:28 pm

think it was $200 for him to do my mrs gtr celica including materials and labour , the the rear window with the curvature in them is a pain. he has a garuntee / warranty also on no air bubbles etc on his worksmanship.

i was going thru yellow pages the other day and there is a 10% discount coupon in the front of it for tint magic

by **SkylineObsession** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:41 pm

$200. Eek. Here's me thinking $30 was bad for installing an SSE sticker on both windscreens of my car.

by **Lloyd** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:15 pm

$200 would be on the cheap side for a proper tint job with a guarantee

by **WCKWGN** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:16 am

do it once and do it right . it not cheap repco tint he uses either , 3m from memory. another place to try is auto art on strathallan st estate as they are a vinyl applier put i think that they may also tint??

depending the size of the whip it maybe cheaper than $200 as it was 3 years ago now she got hers done and it is still mint as no lifting on the top of windows and no bubbles appeared in them any

by **dirty1** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:12 pm

The guy in glenross street (designer screens) has quoted about $450 to do the back end of the caldina.(from behind driver including back window) that was at the 35% i want darker on the back windows to add security to stop the theives seeing by back speakers when the walk past. i live in a dodgey area.

by **Alex B** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:22 pm

Just dont go crying when your wof inspector or a cop asks you to pull them off.

by **rolla_fxgt** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:02 pm

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:Just dont go crying when your wof inspector or a cop asks you to pull them off.

I thought station wagons were allowed darker tints in the rears? or is that another urban myth?

by **Lloyd** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:14 pm

No, they are the same as everything else. A lot of stuff comes with factory tinted glass which is legal, but if you are tinting stuff that isn't factory 5% or whatever then its not legal. Basically you can have 2 identical cars, one with factory tint and with aftermarket stuff. One is legal, one isn't

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